Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Sea Blush, Short-Spurred plectritis

Pletritis congestra - Locally common, late spring,, annual, 4-22 in. Erect slender stems with clasping leaves. Leaves widely oval, with rounded or pointed tips. Inflorescence is a round cluster of pink to dark pink flowers at stem top. Flowers tubular, divided at opening to 5 same-colored unequal lobes with no spots, spur at back very short, slender with rounded tip, turned to inside of cluster. Grows in coastal bluff or partly shaded spring-wet slopes from coastline to mid elevations. Often forms large showy patches. Native.